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Improved fingerprint search algo helps crack a 48-Year-old murder case

by muglug on 5/11/25, 9:54 PM with 2 comments

• by phillipseamore on 5/12/25, 12:30 AM

  Not saying it's the case but some might want to rebrand/spin lowering the threshold for similarity (number of unique features between sample and suspect) as "improved algorithm."

• by treetalker on 5/11/25, 11:08 PM

  Not new: improvement made in 2018.

  > He said that the difference this time was the F.B.I.’s upgrade of its fingerprint search algorithm, which happened in 2018.